Posted On: February 10, 2006, 10:16 pm CST

Posted By: Clifford J. Young

After Catering to the US forestry, state troopers, Feme, and conservation workers in the Gauiter Mississippi camps, and also in the Van Cleave Mississippi camp and visiting the Gulf coast devistation both then, and even more so four month later, I am appalled at the lack of progress on the coast of Mississippi and the empty evacuated barenness of miles of Northern Louisiana, from the business district to Slidell and I-10. Im appalled with insurance companys dragging thier feet and holding big meetings in Orland and sitting around to discuss next years hurricane forcasts.. making silly arguements over wind and water.Flood and hurricane. "You have to serve somebody" Rememeber that song? The church,especially the methodist church,is doing more to serve people on the coast, than insurance companies and the elected mayors and govenors and Feme officials in the convention hall in Biloxi and in the French quater of Louisiana. People who still live in those areas who want work ..cant get it, because the govenors of those states still havent got plans to submit to the government to rebuild and release the 86 billion federal dollars.Seventy miles of the ignored and unpublizid, destroyed, coast line of mississippi is completely ruined, shattered, right down to the pad for three hundred yards inland from the shore, to a mile and a half of deep flooding in some lower lying areas. Every other household article, is 25-30 feet up in the trees. Four months later I tour gulf region again, out of curiosity, and I find 10-15 guys looking for work standing around outside the workforce services in Biloxi Miss. No work ? I say to these guys and they all throw up thier hands in frustration. Some one needs to lay down the insurance law here and get it busy down there...quick or Ill tell ya some one in high position is going to be voted out or impeached real quick. Our elected oficials need to get out of the pockets of insurance companys and humble themselves like the church has and serve somebody.Can I get an ..Amen? WE THE PEOPLE.You-all remenber us ? Something massive and fast needs to happen here besides simply slowly trucking debree away to the dump.The moldy ninth ward simply needs to be reclaimed by the state and bulldozed and made into a lake or park and those who remained need to be simply bought out and given better then they lost.The northern end of New Orleans needs people to return and every temporary emergency service should be in place there right now to encourage owners,back to thier homes and to work. Lets return the tax base to the areas.The Louisiana and Mississippi coast line should have a massive work force moving it in the proper direction for the coming hurricane season. I also noticed that destroyed homes nearest the casinos were demolished first in Biloxi.Witin weeks..Gee do you think the casinos and those local government boys have an agenda for that property ? You bet. The ruined bridge from gulfport to Biloxi hasnt even been started on. Tour groups have been seen in the area down the ruined bridge and along the coastline gauking at other peoples misfortunes.This is a very wrong and very sick. Praise God for the church and the interfaith groups.Its the best thing to hit the Gulf coast around menge road in the Gulfport area, and in waveland since September 3rd when our catering co. arrived {the first U.S. Forest catering co to respond} and relieved local families and the national guard from eating MRI meals.SO who is responsible for this ? All of us. Get busy America. Take pride in who you are and where your from and fight.. fight for it. America's worth it and so are your homes and lives as you knew it. Let me remined America right here and now. We are the example to the world and we need together to pull our boots up by the straps and pull together to do the right thing and reclaim that which has been lost. Insurance or no insurance.Remember these words ? Ask not what your country can do for you ...but what you can do for your country.Do you love your neighbor like yourself ? Be brave and reclaim your lives and homes. Help and encourage your neighbors. Make life in the south rich again, something of real American pride and make an heroic individual effort to make America great.Despite our failures and our state leaders failures and corporate Americas failures.